McGrants – Drive-Through Moments
Sep 30, 2026 · 11 min · 8 segments
Writing a proposal is only a small part of what grant professionals do. In this episode, Keri and Valerie share how their experience in direct services, nonprofit leadership, and business shapes their…
We are talking today about a topic that is sort of near and dear to my heart.
And I feel like as a good follow up to our first dine in episode last week with Allison Welch.
She brought up this idea on the podcast.
And I've also seen a lot of banter about this on LinkedIn recently as well, which is that more than taking orders, why we're grant professionals and not just grant writers.
I think that language is important for us grant writers.
And so one of the things that we want to engage with on the show is thinking like beyond, you know, the title grant writer and to this idea of we are grant professionals because the work that we do encompasses so much more than actually putting pen to paper or putting, you know, finger to keyboard and writing the grant.
So, yeah.
Today, we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about what exactly does that mean? What is a true grant professional? And what are we trying to accomplish as grant professionals for the organizations, either clients or nonprofit organizations that we're employed with? Valerie, how do you title yourself? What do you, you know, I know that you own a company, but when you are thinking about your role today, And the grants world, what is that role and how do you define the work that you do?
We are talking today about a topic that is sort of near and dear to my heart.
And I feel like as a good follow up to our first dine in episode last week with Allison Welch.
She brought up this idea on the podcast.
And I've also seen a lot of banter about this on LinkedIn recently as well, which is that more than taking orders, why we're grant professionals and not just grant writers.
I think that language is important for us grant writers.
And so one of the things that we want to engage with on the show is thinking like beyond, you know, the title grant writer and to this idea of we are grant professionals because the work that we do encompasses so much more than actually putting pen to paper or putting, you know, finger to keyboard and writing the grant.
So, yeah.
Today, we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about what exactly does that mean? What is a true grant professional? And what are we trying to accomplish as grant professionals for the organizations, either clients or nonprofit organizations that we're employed with? Valerie, how do you title yourself? What do you, you know, I know that you own a company, but when you are thinking about your role today, And the grants world, what is that role and how do you define the work that you do?
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